Author: Ken Duenke

Richard Chole, a surgeon and chairman of otolaryngology, is also an inventor whose garage creations include a wristband warning system to prevent wrong-site surgeries and a surgical device that allows less invasive surgery on pituitary tumors.

Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease makes Alzheimer’s brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at the School of Medicine report online this week in Science Express.

Harold Ford Jr., once described by President Bill Clinton as “the walking, living embodiment of where America ought to go in the 21st century,” will give this year’s Elliot Stein Lecture in Ethics for the Assembly Series. His talk will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 7 in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Alumnus Jason Green, who now serves as Deputy Associate General Counsel to President Barack Obama, will be back on campus to give an Assembly Series/Leadership Lecture Series presentation at 4 p.m. Friday, October 9 in Wilson Hall Room 214. His talk is free and open to the public. Green is returning to Washington University to participate in a Student Union reunion from October 9 – 11

A four-part seminar series on inquiry-based methods of science teaching begins at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, with Jay Labov, Ph.D., a senior staff member of the National Research Council’s Center for Education.

A follow-up letter to the Washington University community regarding the University’s finances.

A two-day nanotechnology symposium will be held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24 and 25, in the Whitaker Hall auditorium to highlight the opening of Washington University’s nano research center.

The finishing touches are being made to the exterior of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University.The $235 million BJC Institute of Health will be the hub for Washington University’s BioMed 21 initiative to speed scientific discovery and rapidly apply breakthroughs to patient care.

The Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center was designed to meet the stringent requirements for becoming one of the greenest buildings in North America. To meet those standards required solutions to environmental, architectural and legal challenges never before experienced by designers.

The age at which a person takes a first drink may influence genes linked to alcoholism, making the youngest drinkers the most susceptible to severe problems.